Is The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day a pig? He sure eats like one.

From gory and creepy to cute and “awwwww”. When I saw this picture from the set of ET come in I knew I had to set it aside for Halloween. It’s not an immediate Halloween title, but this pic shows little Drew Barrymore and Henry Thomas getting ready for their Halloween in the movie. So, kids and costumes, check!

The spirit of the season is in this shot, which also happens to be an incredibly well framed picture as well.

Thanks to reader Kevin McNabb for sending this one along. It’s not a huge file, so no embiggening. Enjoy!

If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.

and they had this ET glow finger thing in its original packaging. it was funny because it looked like a dildo. i told me wife it was a licensed ET vibrator, and, long story short, i'm gonna go smear some mud in my ass...

For more than fifteen years. Growing up ET had a very special category in my head... I thought it had affected everyone as it did me. To say I identifed with Elliot would be putting it mildly.
(at least without inflation taken into account)

You're correct it was right around Halloween in 1988. I remember seeing it in an automated VHS rental machine in the grocery store and feeling like the world had changed, it had taken so long to come out.
My mom rented it for me and to be honest I couldn't really get into the movie. I may even have turned it off out of boredom halfway through. I haven't tried to watch it again since then.

What a doll! Still a damn fine looker too. Letterman is still a lucky SOB for getting flashed by her on his birthday way back when.
The penis breath line was NOT changed. The only thing changed was a line spoken by Dee Wallace about a "terrorist," and the walkie talkies.
I too remember when ET finally hit video in 1988. I don't think it was on cable much, maybe it was ,but the video release was a big deal. Love this movie.
This movie has always been too emotional for me to watch too often, so I space my viewings. As a animal lover ,this one reasonates heavily. ET being a stray pet and Elliot having to give him. Haters can rot in hell, but this one is a masterpiece that deserves all it's acclaim.

I haven't seen it for a decade already, and i have no intentions in rewatching it anytime soon. I wouldn't be suprised if i never watch the movie ever again for the rest of my life. This movie has no priority in my life now whatsoever.
There's other Spileberg movies i'm more in awe at. And yes, i used to be a big fan of ET. In fact, it was this movie's soundtrack, in ol' vinyl, that made me a fan of film scores.
Times gone by.

For some reason I didn't want to see it, I don't remember why. Then in 88 I bought the VHS cuz for 6 years people couldn't believe I had never seen it. I watched it alone....and blubered like a little school girl. I've been in love ever since. Great Movie.

first run was like watching lightning caught in a bottle. The tone, the performances, the look, everything was just right. Would it feel like a "kiddie"flick, now, almost 30 years later?
One scene that tears me up every time, is in the hospital when ET expires, and Elliot sits up from his gurney and yells while ripping off his sensors. Gets me everytime. And John Williams score is absolute brilliance throughout.

waiting for Empire of the Sun to reach VHS and waiting for ET to hit VHS arent really the same thing.
ET took an insanely long time to hit the markets..many years to be precise. You couldn't buy it. you couldn't rent it. you couldn't download it..nothing..black hole. Empire of the Sun came and went in the theater and buy the next year it could be rented at least. I was happy to see that film again too but not as much as having ET appear on VHS. I had to wait over half my life (at the time) to enjoy ET again..

That pic looks like right before they roll camera.
Also, if anyone wants to see a truly great audition, they should search on youtube for Henry Thomas's audtion for Elliot. He reduces everyone to tears. Incredible.

Does not exist in this dojo.
when I was a kid we didn't have a lot of money so my parents couldn't afford to take me to see it. All my friends would act so shocked (YOU HAVEN'T SEEN E.T.???!??!)
Now I have made it a point to never see it just for that dumb reason. Maybe I will have that put on my tombstone... "Never saw E.T."

nem_wan, I think mentaldominance is commenting on the fact that E.T. can use telekinesis when the story requires it, but he doesn't think to use it at the start of the film, when he's being chased through the forest by jangling-key-man.

I know E.T. can be seen as a childish movie. I saw it in theaters when I was about 5, and for years afterwards considered it a childish film and never revisited it until my twenties. When I did, I realised that the film is about Elliot being far more torn-up about the lack of a father figure than his siblings, and how E.T. fills that void - albeit for just a short period of time before he is forced letting E.T. go forever, giving him closure and leading to his becoming a man himself.
Its about the gap between kids & adults. If you ignore the flying bikes, its actually a pretty harsh movie. That piano on the soundtrack destroys me everytime.

It's Asimov, if you please.
I never said that Et is bad. I said i just am fed up with it.
EMPIRE OF THE SUN is one of the top best movies ever made in the 80s, and one of the very top of Spielberg's career. I'm sorry you can't appreciate it for the cinematic masterpiece that it is.

For me it felt like ages until EMPIRE OF THE SUN hit the VHS shelves. My wait for ET was hardly that dramatic. When it finally did, my reaction was "yeah, cool". When EMPIRE OF THE SUN finally arrived i was like "About fucking time!" Then i rented the VHs and rewatched the move and cried like a mary magdalene by the end of the movie. Like i always do when i watch that movie. Almost 25 years later and that movie never fails to make me cry. Unbelievable!